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Edward S. Cheng quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly on legal malpractice case involving well known Boston lawyers

Edward S. Cheng, partner in the firm’s Litigation Department, was quoted in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly article “Pair of lawyers at prominent employment firm facing legal-mal suit” on January 24th, 2025. The article covers the story of two Boston attorneys being sued for legal malpractice by their client, a woman who was terminated by her employers in 2023.

Ed is co-chair of the firm’s Professional Liability Practice Group, and teaches Professional Responsibility at Boston College Law School.

From the article:

“If the facts really are as obvious as suggested in the complaint, then plaintiff’s counsel has every reason to reach out to the defendants,” Cheng says. “Then the defendants retain counsel and contact their insurer, and the parties can talk about resolving the matter. The fact that a complaint has been filed, suggests there is another side to all of this.”

Cheng says the case may involve a client experiencing “buyer’s remorse.”

“Maybe the [defendant] attorneys thought that the engagement was over or maybe they were never engaged,” Cheng says. “These are always very factually intensive questions. One of the issues that is sometime in dispute is whether or not the attorney-client relationship extends to what wasn’t done. I find in a lot of cases when there’s an allegation that the attorney didn’t do something, it’s because it’s entirely unclear that the scope of representation included that.”